Born 1898 in Vienna, Austrian graphic designer and painter Joseph Binder established his own studio, Wiener Graphik, in Vienna in 1924. His designs were also celebrated in the leading German design publication Gebrauchsgraphik. Natural images portrayed through geometric forms and flat colors were defining characteristics of the work he created during his Viennese period.
Posters designed by Joseph Binder
In the early 1930s, Binder increasingly set his sights on the United States after he was invited to lecture at the Chicago Art Institute and the Minneapolis School of Art. Throughout the 1930s, Binder’s international reputation continued to grow, fueled by the presence of his posters in exhibitions from New York to Tokyo. In 1938, he officially closed his Vienna studio two years after moving to the United States.
Binder was noted for his refined, stylized images and high-impact colors. Some of his best known works include posters for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the U.S. Army Air Corps and the American Red Cross. He retired in 1963 and turned his focus to painting.
Binder died of a heart attack while installing an exhibition of his paintings in Vienna in 1972. Here below is a set of vintage posters designed by Joseph Binder.
Musik und Theaterfest, der Stadt Wien, 1924
Stoewer 8, 1928
Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, Lloyd-Express, 1929
Kattus Hochriegl-Sekt, Die hohe Qualität, circa 1930s
Gebrauchsgrafik, International Advertising Art, June 1931
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